{"id":157904,"date":"2022-06-06T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-get-existing-part-names-from-my-cad-software-to-spaceclaim\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:57:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:57:59","slug":"how-to-get-existing-part-names-from-my-cad-software-to-spaceclaim","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-get-existing-part-names-from-my-cad-software-to-spaceclaim\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get existing part names from my CAD software to SpaceClaim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CAD part names, as they appear in the CAD system, will only be imported to Spaceclaim if the Direct Reader is configured under &#8220;CAD Configuration Manager&#8221; for that CAD software. The Associative Interface will import parts with generic names such as Solid1, Solid2, etc. <br \/>Another approach is to go to &#8220;File menu>>SpaceClaim Options>>File Options>>Workbench&#8221; and select &#8220;Always use SpaceClaim Reader when possible&#8221; option.  This option skips the CAD configuration manager&#8217;s setting and uses SpaceClaim&#8217;s reader to read native CAD files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-157904","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-export","topic-tag-import"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["06-06-2022 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_btv_view_count":["732"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}